Who Are Today’s Australian Aborigines? Concept of Female, Family, and Spiritual Life

Abstract

The following study discusses contemporary urban Aboriginal culture. It addresses principles of women’s Indigenous Family Care centre in Australia, where the author volunteered, and maintained an ethnographic research.

This organisation, Kummara, is based on family care, strengthening of women’s business, and reconnecting Aboriginal women to their cultural role. By drawing from different cultural notions and contemporary cultural concepts, the process of revitalising leads to interesting modern notion of Aboriginal culture.

Keywords

• contemporary indigeneity
• cultural revitalisation
• women and family well-being
• education of children
• rites of passage